Brooklands Opening Meeting (1938)

Soundtrack is missing for this item. Brooklands, Surrey. Various shots of racing cars at Brooklands. Crowds of people watch from around the course. We then see motorbikes zooming around the track in another race. A rather shy man on a motorcycle poses for the camera - probably Eric Fernihough who set a new speed record at this event - over 143 miles an hour. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.